SendKeys() using unknown keyboard configuration instead of local (azerty vs qwerty-like)

I’m using Appium to automate our new app. My first attempts is as simple as the code below. Here we use the AZERTY keyboard configuration.

However, the text entered in the app is with a QWERTY-like configuration, so “aaa” comes out as “qqq”. My “regular” Selenium tests never had this issue. However, trying out all the keys gave me some weird results. For example, I get the colon character twice from different keys, but no dot character… So it’s not a correct QWERTY either.

DesiredCapabilities appCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
appCapabilities.SetCapability("app", "Company.NewApp_nhrabtd3q6ea2!App");
appCapabilities.SetCapability("platformName", "Windows");
appCapabilities.SetCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");

MobileFormsSession = new WindowsDriver<WindowsElement>(new Uri(WindowsApplicationDriverUrl), appCapabilities);

MobileFormsSession.FindElementByAccessibilityId("username").SendKeys("aaa");

[xiler8]

Bump! This needs to be fixed…

[CyrilJ]

The copy past workaround won’t work if driving an app remotely. Can you fix this bug. It’s annoying to switch keyboard during development one for testing and one for developing. It’s hard to test mutlilanguages application